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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Khan, Shubnum, author.     Subjects     Haunted houses -- Fiction.     Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.     Jinn -- Fiction.     Boardinghouses -- Fiction.     Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.     Family secrets -- Fiction.     Durban (South Africa) -- Fiction.     South Africa -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Khan, Shubnum, author.       by title:      The Djinn waits a hu...         MARC Display

The Djinn waits a hundred years / Shubnum Khan. by Khan, Shubnum, author. [New York] : Viking,, [2024] Subjects Haunted houses -- Fiction.   Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.   Jinn -- Fiction.   Boardinghouses -- Fiction.   Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.   Family secrets -- Fiction.   Durban (South Africa) -- Fiction.   South Africa -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780593653456 (hardcover) 0593653459 (hardcover) Description:  308 pages ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins--a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful tragedy, Sana and her effusive father are Akbar Manzil's newest residents. There they find a community of eccentrics, each suffering their own losses and likewise searching for something-escape, solace, absolution. As Sana becomes increasingly entwined in their stories, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion itself: to the overgrown garden and its strange assortment of bones; to the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects; and to a dusty old bedroom, unopened for decades, where she finds faded photographs of Akbar Manzil's first residents and a worn diary with entries she cannot translate. As she explores the mansion's whispering corners, she dredges up its longest resident: a djinn, the only remnant of Akbar Manzil's dark past. With its help, she discovers the story of a young woman named Meena from a hundred years prior, the original owner's second wife, who lived in the East Wing at the height of Akbar Manzil's glory, whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret--and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along. Sublime, heart-wrenching, and lyrically stunning-with a cast of characters that will have you crying from both laughter and sorrow--this is a haunting, a love story, and a mystery, all twined beautifully into one young girl's search for belonging"-- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Khan Checked out 05/21/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Acquisitions --- On Order   in Processing   Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Fiction Khan Checked out 05/17/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Fiction Khan Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Fiction Khan Checked In   Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Fiction Khan Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pahala P/S Library Adult Fiction Khan Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Fiction Khan Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Acquisitions --- On Order   in Processing   Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Fiction Khan Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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